Parliament’s higher education committee calls on NSFAS to ensure that all eligible students receive the necessary financial aid for the 2025 academic year, addressing concerns over funding processes and the impact of delayed matric results.
| Published 6h agoTHE higher education and training portfolio committee wants the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to ensure students who qualified for the financial assistance do get it.
“We see the Special Investigating Unit is hard at work identifying those former students who wrongfully benefitted from the scheme and to recoup some of the funds,” he said. “Some TVET colleges opened on January 13 and matric results were only released by provinces the following day,” he said. He also noted that the Department of Higher Education has struggled to achieve graduate and admission target in engineering, natural science, human and animal science as they did not yield enough matriculants with good grades in science, engineering, mathematics and science subjects.
Letsie also said the portfolio committee wants Minister for Higher Education and Training Nobuhle Nkabane to appoint an independent assessor for the University of Limpopo.
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